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A80426	Higayon selah. Ierusalem fatall to her assailants. Discovered in a sermon before the Honorable House of commons August 29. 1649. At Margarets Westminster, upon their solemne day of thanksgiving for that signall victory over the Lord Ormond, in routing his whole army, and raising the seige of Dublin in Ireland, by the garrison thereof under the command of lieutenant Generall Jones. / By William Cooper M.A. minister of the gospel at Olaves Southwark.	Cooper, William, minister at St. Olave's Southwark.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6064; Thomason E572_4; ESTC R206160	37,133	45

his life for feare of which he threw himselfe into a pit and was never found Gallus and Valusian treading in his steps were both destroyed by Emilian a Captain In those dayes God plagued the Empire with an Epidemicall pestilence and many other heavy calamities which the Heathens laid to the Christians charge But Cyprian writeth a confutation of that and clearly proves it was their contempt of the Gospel and persecuting of the Saints caused those evils These judgements fell also upon Valerian who raised an eighth persecution against Gods people He was taken by Sapores King of Persia who made a captive of him and his body a foot-stoole treading on his neck when he went on horse-back A righteous judgement upon him who had trampled the truth and professors of it under his feet Aurelian the ninth persecuting Emperour was terrified by a Thunder-bolt from heaven and afterward slain though he seemed somewhat to relent of his cruelty Dioclesian and Maximilian raised the tenth persecution both which quitted their imperiall dignity and the latter of them slaine by the command of Constantine Maximinus was smitten of God with rottennesse and vermine as Herod was for wasting the body of Jesus Christ Famous is the death of Julian the Apostate who first subtilly then openly persecuted the Gospel he asked counsell of the heathen Oracle which was destroyed by fire from heaven to small powder he encouraged the Jewes to rebuild the Temple which was destroyed by an Earthquake fire and a mighty wind at last he was wounded and died crying out Thou Iesus of Galilee thou art too hard for me Many such instances may be added of the fatall ends of Arrian and Eutychean Persecutors But that of Phocas is very remarkable who was the first that set up Antichrist visibly by making the Bishop of Rome Universall Bishop and the Church of Rome head of all other Churches This Emperour was beheaded dismembred and his body given to the Souldiers to be burnt with fire Notable is the example of Minerius who being sent to destroy the poore Christians called Waldenses which he did by fire and sword felt the just vengeance of heaven by fire in his body was consumed with rottennesse and voided blood in stead of urine and died with great torments Charles the fifth a famous Emperour for wisdome and valour yet dashed against this rock of endevouring to destroy Protestants was himselfe driven out of his Empire that endevored to drive out the Gospel thence To step but on the other side we shall finde Henry the second and Francis the second of France taken away by death who began persecutions there Likewise the Duke of Guise a cruell persecutor dying gave breath to the poore afflicted Saints And Charles the ninth a most perfidious and bloody Prince dyed with great effusion of blood from sundry parts of his body Anno 1574. Thus will the Lord have blood for blood not sparing the effusion of Royall blood to avenge the blood Royall of his children whom he hath made Kings and Priests to himselfe through Christ Jesus Rev. 1.8 and which cost the bloud of his deare son I cannot passe by Henry the third of France who was killed by a Iacobine Munke in that very chamber where the King had been chiefe in concluding the massacre of Paris which massacre was so bloody and barbarous that the very Spaniards at the treaty of Munster told the States of the Low Countries that the Spanish Nation had never done such a Butchery against those of the Religion but abhorred such acts and that it was sufficient to declare the genius of the French I will not come down lower to instance in later times they are so infinite and so fresh your own memories I hope are stored with them as so many Courts of Records and your meditations often read them over If it be not so give me leave as your remembrancer to tell you that you ought never to forget the judgments of God written in blood legible to all the world that he will never let a wickednesse goe unpuished which is acted against his people Vse 3 Let us see the greatnesse of the mercy which we commemorate this day how God hath made Dublin a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone to her enemies in the siege The greatnesse of the mercy may be seen in these two particulars There was very much of God in it and little of man whether you regard numbers the enemy had that advantage whether his confidence whether his successes before In a word if you look on the besieged as the last that were left to be eaten that their adversaries had it in consultation to bind them back to back and throw them into the Sea that their succours were delayed and many disheartning emissaries to perswade the beleagred that no reliefe would come to them at all that therefore they should secure the Governour and deliver the Citie that then the Lord should deliver the Citie from the enemy arming a few beyond their own intentions to destroy a huge Host let the Governours of Judah say for this say the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of Hosts Consider the latitude and extent of this mercy look not upon it as within the circumference of one single Citie Nahum 3.12 divers other Forts and strong Holds followed and come on still dropping as ripe Figs into the mouth of the eater Many daughters attend the mother or Metropolis this great mercy is but the first fruits and the earnest of that which followes Look on this mercy as that which reacheth three Nations and all the true Israel of God and the Generations to come let us look on this mercy as one deadly wound to the Beast and the false Prophet a mercy though in comparison of many great ones not so great yet super-added to the quotient and catalogue addes very much to the bulk of them and to Gods glory yet let me tell you this victory and deliverance singly shines in its owne lustre without borrowing and is able to speak its own greatnesse abstracted from others Ask the broken enemy their frustrated hopes their slaughtered carcasses their great losse speakes it our great gain Ask the trembling Citizens that were even in the paws of danger and plunder and death and were delivered they will say 't is a great mercy Psalm 107.1 2. the redeemed of the Lord say so That his mercy endureth for ever What need I say more your selves that stand upon advantagious and higher ground that see further and clearer then us that know the times what Israel ought to doe that weigh circumstances and consequences in a right ballance you have declared your sense of it so high that not a greater mercy on this side Egypt hath been declared to Gods people This mercy hath made such an impression upon some of your enemies as was upon Saul when he told David Blessed be thou my son David for thou shalt

were escheated for this the Lord sent a sword upon Ammon and devoured him Thus was Israel Heyre to them that were his Heyres saith the Lord. The same befell them for their scoffing at Israel in her Calamity Ezek. 25.3 c. saying aha clapping their hands and stamping with their feet that the same Judgement should befall them The King of Moab would needes curse Israel by a sorcerer was cursed by him with his people Num. 22.23.24 cap. Jer. 48.26.27 and the cursing Prophet slain with the Sword of Israel but the Prophet Jeremiah gives Moab a Cup of drunkennes to wallow in his vomit and to become a derision what 's the reason because he had derided Israel loe a cup of trembling for Moab Haman got a Commission to put the Jewes to death and built a Gallows for Mordecai Hester got a Commission to put Haman to death with his Sonnes and he was hanged on his own Gallows Esther Cap. 6.7 8. Mat. 15.11 loe the exact severity of divine justice upon his peoples adversaries for with what measure they meate to us the Lord will measure to them again 2 King 18.19 Cap. Zenacherib trusting in Nisroch his God came up against Israel and slew the Children of God he was slain by his own Children in the house of Nisroch his God Thus the Lord comforteth Jacob Jer. 30.16 Behold all that devoure thee shall be devoured all that spoyle thee shall be a spoyle and all that prey upon thee I will give for a prey Prov. 22.17 Deut. 32.41.42 Psal 64.4.7 8 9. Thus he that seeketh evil and vengeance evil and vengeance shall come upon him and this the Lord will recompence on his Churches adversaries as he solemnly professeth He will shoot suddenly with an Arrow against those wicked Archers that shoot at his people and will wound them so shall they make their own tongues to fall upon them and all men shall feare and shall declare his doings This hath made me the more copious in this That God having executed the same acts of retaliating Justice upon your enemies we may both wisely consider his doings and declare those works of God this day Reason Which consideration may well put us upon a little search of the ground of this proceeding in God It s from that neare union and interest that the Lord and his people have in each other whereby the Lord cannot but engage himselfe to be tender of them 1 Cor. 3.17 They are as so many sacred Temples unto God Now If any man defile the Temple of God him will God destroy Ephes 5. His people are his Body and his Members and his Flesh and Blood Now no man ever hated his own flesh but nourished and cherished it Therefore if any hurt his body members or flesh he will require eye for eye tooth for tooth limb for limb and life for life They are the Lords sons and children he that wrongs them Exod. 4.22 23. the Lord will slay their sons their first born They are his Lambs how tender is he of them appeares in his three-fold charge to Peter to feed them and in bearing them in his Armes will hee see them worried and not avenge their blood They are his brethren mother and sister Mark 3.35 it were unnaturall not to defend the lives and avenge the deaths of these Nay observe this is one reason why he is called the Redeemer or God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Numb 35. Ruth 3 12 13. it is one of his Attributes and he was properly a kinsman and blood-friend and he was such a one which had jus vindiciarum and shall we think this an empty Title I tell you he will avenge his kinreds blood and that right speedily They are the Lords crown and glory Isai 62.9 Nay Isa 62.3 4. and his very Jewels will he suffer any to rifle his Cabinet or pluck off the Crown from his head who will not tremble at the thought of such an attempt They are the Lords Free-men can we thinke he will endure them to be made slaves How hath he then triumphed 1 Cor. 7.22 and led captivity captive if he hath not made a perfect conquest They are pure Virgins of the Lord 2 Cor. 11.2 who durst attempt the chastity of his Virgins or of his Spouse to kindle the fire of his jealousie They are all Kings and Priests to him through Jesus Christ Rev. 1.6 therefore all anointed therefore all sacred therefore he charges all the world not to touch them under that notion and reproves Kings for their sakes the height of which prophanesse and Sacriledge in his account is a daring and provoking sinne Let us not think these Titles and Relations empty they are the highest engagements in the world Hence the Lord hath cloathed himselfe with all titles of defence and safety Take notice of one place where David in the day the Lord delivered him from all his enemies calls God his Rocke Psal 18.2 his Fortresse his Deliverer his God his Strength his Buckler his high Tower and the Horn of his Salvation and severall attributes of defence which last also is a Horn of Salvation for his servants to push down their enemies So we have God both a defensive and an offensive weapon to his people against their enemies in that congratulation Deut. 33.29 Happy art thou O Israel saved by the Lord the shield of thy help and the sword of thine excellency i. e. the most excellent sword that his people can have and that by which they excell and conquer their foes Psa 44.6.7 Zach. 2.5 therefore said to be better then Bow or Sword and more to be trusted unto But that of our Prophet is a very high expression where the Lord saith He will be a wall of fire about Jerusalem he had said before Jerusalem shall be inhabited as Townes without Walls Then they might object How shall it be defended if it hath no Walls Very well saith God I will be instead of Walles my salvation shall be Walles and Bulwarks Isa 26. v. 1. this makes a strong City but this is not all they are no common Walles that I will be to Jerusalem Gladio ancipiti flammeo et versatili he will be a Wall of sire about Jerusalem Alluding saith Lactantius and others to Paradise which was guarded by Cherubims and a flaming Sword burning every way Or perhaps alluding to such as travell through Desarts where they have no fence in the night from savage Beasts but by making fires which affrights a far off the devouring creatures thus the Lord is to Jerusalem Oh but will not this damnifie or endanger the Church within that fire No I will be glory in the midst of her fire without and glory within At the same time as the furnace was in Daniel fire without burnt the enemies but glory within to the three Worthies Jer. 51.58 for the Lord was there with them Babylons